Paymenter
by Paymenter · Open-source billing and subscription automation for hosting providers
35.2 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Overview
Paymenter is open-source billing software for hosting businesses, released under the MIT licence. It automates subscriptions and service deployment and includes ticketing, announcements, affiliates, and multi-language and multi-currency support. Payment gateways and other integrations come from an extension marketplace, and a REST API with an OpenAPI spec covers automation.
- Best for
- Hosting providers wanting self-hosted, open-source billing and subscription automation.
- Pricing
- Self-hosting is free under the MIT licence; the optional Paymenter Cloud starts at $5/month.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- MIT-licensed and free to self-host
- Automated WHMCS importer for clients, services and invoices
- REST API with OpenAPI spec, plus an extension marketplace
- Bundles ticketing, announcements, affiliates and multi-currency
Trade-offs
- Aimed at hosting businesses; no other sectors are addressed
- Only a WHMCS importer exists; Blesta and others are marked as coming
- Self-hosting leaves installation, updates and backups to you
- Cloud pricing shows only a $5/month starting figure, no plan detail
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 0 out of 100
- API quality
- 35 out of 100
- Documentation
- 60 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 53 out of 100
- Changelog
- 40 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 60 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 0 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 85 out of 100
- Maintenance
- 100 out of 100
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